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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Global Peace and Security Dynamics and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

ORCID 0000-0002-3632-2461 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,617
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,547
of 1,627,098
Works
1,267
Citations
141k
Citations per work
111.6
h-index
116
i10-index 381Top 0.1% in Sociology and Political Science
Noam Chomsky

What does Noam Chomsky research?

Noam Chomsky's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (19%), Psychology (3%).

Social Sciences: 744 works · 58.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 462 works · 36.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 232 works · 18.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 189 works · 14.9% of their workCultural Studies: 42 works · 3.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 242 works · 19.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 181 works · 14.3% of their workPhilosophy: 61 works · 4.8% of their workPsychology: 39 works · 3.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 39 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 523 works · 41.3% of their workTHEIR WORKNoam Chomsky1,267works
Social Sciences59%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences46236.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities24219.1%
    3. Psychology393.1%
  2. Everything else52341.3%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations15% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics14% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy5% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies3% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Noam Chomsky's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Humanitarian Intervention, Responsibility to Protect, Semantics, Syntax, Cultural Evolution and Language.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Teaching1121 topic
  2. Linguistic Historiography1121 topic
  3. Humanitarian Intervention841 topic
  4. Responsibility to Protect841 topic
  5. Semantics711 topic
  6. Syntax711 topic
  7. Cultural Evolution541 topic
  8. Language541 topic
  9. Air Force461 topic
  10. Culture461 topic
  11. Islam461 topic
  12. Legal Regulation461 topic
  13. Modernization461 topic
  14. Transport Policy461 topic
  15. Israel381 topic
  16. Palestine381 topic

Where does Noam Chomsky work?

Noam Chomsky's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Noam Chomsky have?

OpenAlex counts 1,267 works and 141,367 citations for Noam Chomsky, an h-index of 116, ranking #50,617 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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